Dargel Solutions · Essays
Under the name Adrian Verdan, the publishing imprint of Dargel Solutions, we publish reports on our own automation — each one built on a specific failure, with the date, the log, and the change that followed. Every report is here in full; most are also on Medium. Free to read, no sign-up.
30 August 2026
Five repeated AI review runs unanimously preferred the more active film scene. Four also filed a Major; one of those reports exposed how the pictures made unresolved tasks disappear into an archive and called it progress. Why a 5–0 can choose a direction but cannot grant approval.
30 August 2026
Fifteen rules, 457 passing tests, 77 of 77 mutants killed — and not one test document my layout checker had ever seen carried a figure it could measure, while 40 of the 74 pages in the guides I sell do. A corpus written to make the tests pass measures the author, not the world.
17 August 2026
Nine runs on three fixtures I wrote myself, same prompt, same morning — the only variable was the model. The cheaper model missed a deliberately planted missing entry in four of five runs; the expensive one caught it in four of four.
11 August 2026
Six products, five weeks, and a single buyer who bought twice. Auditing my own website counters turned up one that was wrong — and a second that only surfaced because somebody else read the draft. I end with one claim fewer than I started.
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5 August 2026
The second-opinion runner exited with code 7 and wrote no file, for twelve days, unnoticed. In a log, silence and agreement look the same. The report corrects the number in its own headline.
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3 August 2026
An adapter read camelCase while the interface delivered snake_case. The tests stayed green because they asserted exactly what the code did. The report sets out the signs of a check that only measures its own assumption.
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1 August 2026
From 23 to 28 July our marketing bot published almost nothing: three zero days on the 23rd, 27th and 28th, with three, two and one post on the days in between. No crash, no error message — on those zero days a daily cap, a circuit breaker, an image quota and a release gate, each set correctly on its own, came to zero together. The report works out the combined capacity.
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